324 Mr. \V. L. Distant's Rhynchotal Notes. 



Xiphistes altenuata, sp. n. 



Uniformly pale brownish-ochraceous ; body elongate, poste- 

 riorly attenuate ; pronotum coarsely punctate, centrally per- 

 currently carinate, the anterior angles longly, almost hori- 

 zontally produced, slender, very slightly apically depressed, 

 all the edges carinate, the posterior process slender, its apex 

 depressed and almost reaching apices of tegmina, which 

 are semihyaline, the venation pale brownish-ochraceous ; in 

 some lights the abdomen beneath is reflected, thus making 

 the basal two-thirds of the tegmina to appear as of a more 

 testaceous hue. 



Long., incl. ant. pronot. proc, 7f mm. 



Hab. Mashonaland ; Lesapi R. (G. A. K. Marshall). 



A species to be distinguished by its attenuated form and 

 the long and slender pronotal lateral angles, which are sub- 

 equal in length to that of the pronotum behind them. 



Genus GONGRONEUEA. 



Pedalion, Buckt. Mon. Membrac. p. 251 (3903), noin. praeocc. 

 Gongroneura, Jacobi, in Sjostedt Kiliinandj. Exped. xii., Horn, p. 119 

 (1910), n. nom. 



Gongroneura triste. 

 Pedalion triste, Buckt. Mou, Membrac, p. 252, pi. lvii. fig. 5 (1903). 



Hab. Cameroons. 



Gongroneura ornata. 

 Pedalion ornatum, Buckt. Mon. Membrac, p. 252, pi. lvii. fig. 6 (1903). 



Hab. Cameroons. 



Genus Pyegauchenia. 



Pyrgauchenia, Bredd., Halle Abb. naturf. Ges. xxiv. p. 126 (1906) ; 



Schmidt, Stett. Ent. Zeit. lxvii. p. 370 (1906). 

 PyrgophylliMn, Bredd. Soc. Ent. xvii. p. 91 (1902). 

 Pyrgolyrium, Bredd. loc. cit. p. 92 (1902). 



Type, P. sarasinorum, Bredd. 



It is, perhaps, better to provisionally accept Schmidt's 

 compression of Breddin's genera as above, for the last-named 

 entomologist queried several of his own generic fixations 

 (sup?-a). More material may possibly cause a different con- 

 clusion. On the other hand, I do not agree with Schmidt 

 that Stal's genus Pyrgonota = Hyp>sauchenia, Germ. 



